Homer: 800-700 BCE
Hesiod: 750-650 BCE
Sappho: c. 620-570 BCE
Plato: 428-347 BCE
Herodotus:484–c. 425 BCE
Aeschylus: c. 525 – c. 456 BCE
Sophocles: c. 497-405 BCE
Aristotle: 384-322 BCE
Euripides: c. 480 – c. 406 BCE
Thucydides:c.460-400 BCE
Aristophanes: 446-385 BCE
Menander: 342-292 BCE